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Subject: Re: scanner compatibility 
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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:18:49 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 19:17:37 GMT
> From: gilbertoribeiro@aeiou.pt
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> Hello, my name is Gilberto Ribeiro, I'm portuguese (so sorry for the 
> bad english), and I use FreeBSD for six months or so...
> 
> Recently i bought a hp 4400 scanner and i use it under windows, when 
> i tried to use it under FreeBSD i realized that there are no 
> aplications for scanners, I've seached the online handbook, and 
> haven't seen a single reference so scanners... why? Is it there and 
> i'm just blind (if so, please give-me the link) or is FreeBSD not 
> compatible with any kind of scanner. Is there a way to use my scanner 
> with FreeBSD or other unix-like OS?

Scanner support in FreeBSD is by SANE, same as in Linux. The problem
is that SANE only supports some scanners and I don't see any reference
to the HP 4400.

See http://www.mostang.com/sane/ for details. xsane, sane-frontends,
and sane-backends are all in usr/ports/graphics.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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